John Waters’s Cry-Baby is the ideal companion piece to the filmmaker’s 1988 hit Hairspray. That film takes place in the early ’60s, against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, and deals in a lighthearted fashion with thorny issues of racial segregation, while Cry-Baby uses its mid-’50s setting to poke fun at class conflict in staid Eisenhower-era Baltimore. And both films are perfectly realized period pieces awash with the music of their respective eras: Hairspray focusing on soul and R&b, Cry-Baby packed with catchy rockabilly and doowop numbers.
Cry-Baby focuses on Wade Walker (Johnny Depp), the leader of a redoubtable gang of “drapes,” a Baltimorean spin on the greasers of the time. Events begin to echo Romeo and Juliet once Cry-Baby, who’s known for driving girls crazy for the way he’s able to shed a single tear, makes a play for Allison (Amy Locane), the...
Cry-Baby focuses on Wade Walker (Johnny Depp), the leader of a redoubtable gang of “drapes,” a Baltimorean spin on the greasers of the time. Events begin to echo Romeo and Juliet once Cry-Baby, who’s known for driving girls crazy for the way he’s able to shed a single tear, makes a play for Allison (Amy Locane), the...
- 6/7/2024
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
The Guyver 4K Uhd from Unearthed Films
The Guyver will merge onto 4K Uhd + Blu-ray + CD on May 21 via Unearthed Films. Based on the Japanese manga series of the same name, the 1991 sci-fi superhero film has been newly restored in 4K from the original, R-rated 35mm camera negative.
Special effects legends Steve Wang (Predator) and Screaming Mad George (Society) co-direct from a script by Jon Purdy. Mark Hamill, Vivian Wu, Jack Armstrong, Jimmie Walker, Michael Berryman, David Gale, and Jeffrey Combs star. Brian Yuzna produces.
New special features include: a commentary by George and Wang; interviews with George and Yuzna; suit tests, outtakes, and a gag reel with commentary; and a gallery. A soundtrack CD...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
The Guyver 4K Uhd from Unearthed Films
The Guyver will merge onto 4K Uhd + Blu-ray + CD on May 21 via Unearthed Films. Based on the Japanese manga series of the same name, the 1991 sci-fi superhero film has been newly restored in 4K from the original, R-rated 35mm camera negative.
Special effects legends Steve Wang (Predator) and Screaming Mad George (Society) co-direct from a script by Jon Purdy. Mark Hamill, Vivian Wu, Jack Armstrong, Jimmie Walker, Michael Berryman, David Gale, and Jeffrey Combs star. Brian Yuzna produces.
New special features include: a commentary by George and Wang; interviews with George and Yuzna; suit tests, outtakes, and a gag reel with commentary; and a gallery. A soundtrack CD...
- 3/15/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Chicago – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 15 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Rabbit Hole” with Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart and Dianne Wiest.
“Rabbit Hole” also features Sandra Oh, Miles Teller, Tammy Blanchard, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Tenney, Stephen Mailer, Mike Doyle, Roberta Wallach, Patricia Kalember, Ali Marsh, Yetta Gottesman and Colin Mitchell from director John Cameron Mitchell and writer David Lindsay-Abaire. The film, which opens in Chicago on Dec. 25, 2010, is produced by OddLot Entertainment and one of the producers is Chicagoan Gigi Pritzker.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Rabbit Hole” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The...
“Rabbit Hole” also features Sandra Oh, Miles Teller, Tammy Blanchard, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Tenney, Stephen Mailer, Mike Doyle, Roberta Wallach, Patricia Kalember, Ali Marsh, Yetta Gottesman and Colin Mitchell from director John Cameron Mitchell and writer David Lindsay-Abaire. The film, which opens in Chicago on Dec. 25, 2010, is produced by OddLot Entertainment and one of the producers is Chicagoan Gigi Pritzker.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Rabbit Hole” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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- 12/11/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Film review: 'Red Meat'
Occupying the mean-spirited terrain of "In the Company of Men" and "Your Friends & Neighbors," "Red Meat" serves up a slab of men behaving badly where women are concerned.
But first-time feature filmmaker Allison Burnett (a man) is no Neil LaBute, and his stagey portrait of guys who meet one Sunday a month to work out, eat red meat and brag of sexual conquests is a talkfest of major proportions with ultimately very little to say.
Straitjacketed by an over-reliance on flashbacks and voice-overs and awash in actorish performances, the low-budget indie production won't be generating any substantial select-site cravings.
Doing the male-bonding thing this particular Sunday are unrepentant jerk Stefan John Slattery) and nice-guy jerk Chris (Stephen Mailer), who happen to be joined by guest carnivore Victor (James Frain), a long lost acquaintance of Chris' who walks into their favorite barbecue joint.
After regaling their new recruit as well an eavesdropping waitress (Traci Lind) with tales of brazen braggadocio, the cocky Stefan and the over-intellectualizing Chris finally press Victor to come clean, and he easily outclasses his hosts with a spiritually redemptive story of his relationship with a terminally ill woman (Lara Flynn Boyle).
The film's constant shifts back and forth in time and excessive storytelling narration make for a trite and tedious viewing experience. Burnett, who also wrote the script, based it on three chapters of his own novel and the picture seldom manages to break free from those printed page origins.
He's somewhat more successful in the technical department. With the assistance of director of photography Charlie Lieberman ("Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer"), the picture looks a lot better than it sounds.
RED MEAT
Peninsula Films
A Treehouse Films presentation
Director-screenwriter: Allison Burnett
Producers: Liver Eberle, Marco Weber
Director of photography: Charlie Lieberman
Production designers: Frank Bollinger, Clare Brown
Editor: Sloane Klevin Music: The Blue Hawaiians Color/stereo
Cast:
Ruth: Lara Flynn Boyle
Victor: James Frain
Candace: Jennifer Grey
Connie the Waitress: Traci Lind
Chris: Stephen Mailer
Stefan: John Slattery
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
But first-time feature filmmaker Allison Burnett (a man) is no Neil LaBute, and his stagey portrait of guys who meet one Sunday a month to work out, eat red meat and brag of sexual conquests is a talkfest of major proportions with ultimately very little to say.
Straitjacketed by an over-reliance on flashbacks and voice-overs and awash in actorish performances, the low-budget indie production won't be generating any substantial select-site cravings.
Doing the male-bonding thing this particular Sunday are unrepentant jerk Stefan John Slattery) and nice-guy jerk Chris (Stephen Mailer), who happen to be joined by guest carnivore Victor (James Frain), a long lost acquaintance of Chris' who walks into their favorite barbecue joint.
After regaling their new recruit as well an eavesdropping waitress (Traci Lind) with tales of brazen braggadocio, the cocky Stefan and the over-intellectualizing Chris finally press Victor to come clean, and he easily outclasses his hosts with a spiritually redemptive story of his relationship with a terminally ill woman (Lara Flynn Boyle).
The film's constant shifts back and forth in time and excessive storytelling narration make for a trite and tedious viewing experience. Burnett, who also wrote the script, based it on three chapters of his own novel and the picture seldom manages to break free from those printed page origins.
He's somewhat more successful in the technical department. With the assistance of director of photography Charlie Lieberman ("Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer"), the picture looks a lot better than it sounds.
RED MEAT
Peninsula Films
A Treehouse Films presentation
Director-screenwriter: Allison Burnett
Producers: Liver Eberle, Marco Weber
Director of photography: Charlie Lieberman
Production designers: Frank Bollinger, Clare Brown
Editor: Sloane Klevin Music: The Blue Hawaiians Color/stereo
Cast:
Ruth: Lara Flynn Boyle
Victor: James Frain
Candace: Jennifer Grey
Connie the Waitress: Traci Lind
Chris: Stephen Mailer
Stefan: John Slattery
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 12/14/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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